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Worldwide Friends Foundation
Israel Friends and Ukraine Friends are our flagship humanitarian missions, operating under the U.S.-based 501(c)(3) Worldwide Friends Foundation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $1,873,260 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,330,344 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $457,084 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Beth El Synagogue | $1,720,110 |
| Friends of Yashar LaChayal | $71,026 |
| Alevy Family Foundation | $36,850 |
| PEF Israel Endowment Funds Inc | $30,000 |
| MITZVAH FOR UKRAINE INC | $8,000 |
| Operation Israel Inc | $7,274 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Grants abroad, by region — $444k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, $384k to organizations and $60k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Humanitarian Aid · Medical · PTSD
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
American Friends of IDFWO is dedicated to providing financial, emotional, and social support to the families of Israeli soldiers who have sacrificed their lives in service. We aim to honor their legacy and help rebuild the lives of widows…
To advise and support the atalef foundation in its mission of strengthening the core foundations of israeli society through assisting soldiers and graduates of shayetet-13, israel's navy seals. the organization is non-political in nature.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Libi Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alevy Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANATEVKA INC ↗
- Who funds Western Wall Heritage Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Yashar L'Chayal Inc ↗
- Who funds ALEVY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION ISRAEL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Worldwide Friends Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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